The Citadel vs. Wake Forest
The Citadel and Wake Forest have 3 meetings on file, the first in 1910; Wake Forest leads the series 2–1 in the games on file. Over the last 3 meetings it’s Wake Forest 2–1, and Wake Forest has won the last 2. Share
- The Citadel wins
- 1
- Wake Forest wins
- 2
- Ties
- 0
- Earliest on file
- 1910
- Longest streak
- 2 Wake Forest
- Current streak
- 2 Wake Forest
- Last 10 meetings
- Wake Forest 2–1
- Most recent
- 1980
The series at a glance
- Average margin
- 17.3 points; 1 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
- At The Citadel
- 1–0 The Citadel’s record at home
- At Wake Forest
- 2–0 Wake Forest’s record at home
- Shutouts
- 1
Every meeting on file, as played. Ranks are the AP poll’s going in.
Both programs through the years
Our Elo rating at the end of each season, a measure of how strong a team was, not a forecast; 1500 is an average FBS team.
From the newspapers

1910 · The farmer and mechanic, Raleigh, N.C., Nov 1, 1910
Public-domain newspapers from the Library of Congress’s Chronicling America, found through the American Stories dataset (Dell and Harvard, CC BY 4.0). The earliest meetings with a story on file; each game’s page has the full text.
Every game
| Sep 20, 1980 | Wake Forest 24, The Citadel 7 | at Wake Forest | ||
| Sep 30, 1938 | Wake Forest 31, The Citadel 0 | at Wake Forest | ||
| Oct 29, 1910 | The Citadel 9, Wake Forest 5 | at The Citadel |
Every game is listed as played on the field.